Platform was a group show in The Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, curated by Stef Van Bellingen (in association with WARP) in April 2015.

The show also included works by both visiting Belgian artists and other Irish artists - Karina Beumer, Eleanor Duffin, Maria McKinney, Joel Shuurmans, Jonas Vansteenkiste and Richard Forrest.

Karina Beumer included a painting in the show, titled 'abused painting' which she invited me to 'interview'.

This developed into a text titled Something is Missing, which was then performed on the opening of the show as a monologue. The text is an imagined stream of consciousness by the painting as a musing on its place in the show, remarks on the other works, insecurity on its status as an art object as well as its desire to be looked at. The character of the painting was also inspired by both literary and real Dublin street characters from the local area, and is of a somewhat confrontational personality. The text was also available to take away for the duration of the show.

Piss in the drains from last night, hand on the glass to steady yourself, mind how you go now.

Fecking kids, yea you think I'm funny?

I'm not known yet, but do you know what, who cares. Time enough for all that. I'm not into all that anyways.

Cropped top on, yea. More of that.

Really I'm incomplete but don't put that in words, I don't feel...right. I feel like I wasn't finished like others. Like I'm not what I should be. Bit rough around the edges, yea? I feel you looking at me, not in the way I want. Or else you quickly look somewhere else. Like I care!

And the others? She's a bit prickly. And that flashy git taking up the whole room, yea? Wipe your feet on the way out.

I hear them laughing, 'too small'. Yea, feck off.

I'd watch my back if I were you.

Am I just your reflection?

The truth has been obscured if I'm honest. I'm not even affected though, ok? When I'm gone, just be kind yea?